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Nine technicians have been fired in the thirteen dates that have been played in the Betplay League 2024-2. The last team that was left without a coach was Golden Eagles. The directives of the golden team, which now plays at home in Sincelejo, decided to fire Jose Luis Garcia after the goalless draw against Independent Santa Fe.
In a press release issued last Monday they confirmed it. “The board of directors of the Águilas Doradas Club thanks the Technical Director José Luis García, who until today served in his position, as strategist of the professional team,” they said from the golden box.
The former team from eastern Antioquia is in eighth place in the League standings. He has 17 points, the result of four wins, five draws and two losses. The campaign he did under García’s leadership was not bad. More so if you take into account that the golds have two postponed games.
However, The leaders made the decision that García and his work team, made up of Iván Garrido Pinzón (technical assistant), Óscar Leiva (physical trainer), Marlon Sisa (Psychologist) and Christian Rincón (video analyst), would leave the institution. In the coming days they will announce the new coach, who will be the third coach of the golden team in 2024. Before that there was Hernán Darío “El Bolillo” Gómez, who left office last March.
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The other technician who left his position after date 13 was Jhon Jaime Gómez, who stopped being in charge of the Boyacá Chicó after the 0-2 defeat against América de Cali at the La Independencia stadium in Tunja. The Boyacense team is located in the penultimate place in the League.
In the 12 games he played he only won 2, tied a couple and lost 8: he has eight points in the standings. In addition, it is the team that has conceded the most goals: they were celebrated 21 times. The new coach of the Boyacense team is the Uruguayan Sergio Migliaccio.
Before the dismissal of this pair of coaches, in the Betplay League they left their position on the benches Alfredo Arias, who came out of DIM after losing a match against Deportivo Cali last August and was replaced by Alejandro Restrepo; Pablo Repetto, who left National Athletic by a decision of the leaders, who saw in the Mexican Efrain Juarez the ideal man to be in charge of the sports project they want to put together.
The Barranquilla technician Arturo Reyes He left Junior de Barranquilla after reaching the quarterfinals of the Copa Libertadores. To replace him, the Char family chose the Venezuelan César Farías, who in the first half of this year led América de Cali.
The Argentine Néstor Craviotto stopped being coach of Jaguares de Córdoba. In his replacement they put the former Antioquian soccer player Édgar “El Panzer” Carvajal. Harold Rivera was removed from his position at Patriotas last September and Dayron Pérez was appointed to replace him.
Envigado FC also had a change of coach in the second half of 2024. The leadership of the team from the south of Valle de Aburrá, which is located in the last box of the League standings with only 6 units, fired José Alexis Márquez and in his place he appointed, as he has done in recent months, Andrés Orozco.
Meanwhile, coach Hernán Torres was fired from his position as coach of Deportivo Cali on September 20. The sugar team is in 17th place in the standings with 9 points. They have only won 2 of the 12 games they played in the League. Of the remaining 10, they tied 3 and lost seven. The responsibility of saving the team from relegation was assumed by Sergio Herrera.
